Hitler's Germany Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history. Roderick Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness.

This second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate recent historical research and engage with current debates in the field. It includes

an expanded introduction focusing on the hazards of writing about Nazi Germany

an extended analysis of fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism, and ideology

a broadened contextualisation of antisemitism

discussion of the Holocaust including the euthanasia program and the role of eugenics

new chapters on Nazi social and economic policies and the structure of government as well as on the role of culture, the arts, education and religion

additional maps, tables, and a chronology

a fully updated bibliography.

Exploring the controversies surrounding Nazism and its afterlife in historiography and historical memory, Hitler's Germany provides students with an interpretive framework for understanding this extraordinary episode in German and European history.